650S prices

[MDL111]

davek_964 said:

Mine is the same colour scheme - although will be about 22/23k miles by the time we get back from Italy.

I think I am ready to sell mine, but I want to sell another car first and by the time I've sorted a few things out on it it's likely to be the end of the year - which means I'll probably just wait until next Spring.

Unless prices plummet, I'd basically want my money back from Spring 2023, so a tad over £100k. Seems very achievable at the moment

are you by any chance driving back via the Austrian alps? I hope to get my car back this week and then wanted to go for a drive in the mountains before the bad weather hits.

[davek_964]

MDL111 said:

are you by any chance driving back via the Austrian alps? I hope to get my car back this week and then wanted to go for a drive in the mountains before the bad weather hits.

No. We came down through the Swiss Alps - which was rammed. We were stuck in a jam for a while due to an accident.
Wife wanted to visit Nice, so we head to France in a few days then back via dull French motorways.

[MDL111]

davek_964 said:

MDL111 said:

are you by any chance driving back via the Austrian alps? I hope to get my car back this week and then wanted to go for a drive in the mountains before the bad weather hits.

No. We came down through the Swiss Alps - which was rammed. We were stuck in a jam for a while due to an accident.
Wife wanted to visit Nice, so we head to France in a few days then back via dull French motorways.

ah too bad, could have shown you a few roads and would have been nice to see another McLaren, not like there are a lot of them around

[akadk]

davek_964 said:

Mine is the same colour scheme - although will be about 22/23k miles by the time we get back from Italy.

I think I am ready to sell mine, but I want to sell another car first and by the time I've sorted a few things out on it it's likely to be the end of the year - which means I'll probably just wait until next Spring.

Unless prices plummet, I'd basically want my money back from Spring 2023, so a tad over £100k. Seems very achievable at the moment

Yours would sell for £110k tomorrow IMO

[bentley01]

davek_964 said:

No. We came down through the Swiss Alps - which was rammed. We were stuck in a jam for a while due to an accident.
Wife wanted to visit Nice, so we head to France in a few days then back via dull French motorways.

I went up the Route Napoleon from Nice. Definitely worth the extra time .

[akadk]

100%
If I was in nice in a 650S, I would 100% travel back via Route Napoleon & Route Des Grand Alpes

Bucket list stuff

[TTB]

akadk said:

100%
If I was in nice in a 650S, I would 100% travel back via Route Napoleon & Route Des Grand Alpes

Bucket list stuff

Route napoleon is an awesome stretch of road. Fast, flowing and huge fun.
Everyone travels down that way for the passes such as stelvio and furka etc but the RN in my opinion is the one to drive

[Zorbathegreek]

The tuned 650S is no longer listed on AT, leaving six for sale. Two of the six are higher value ‘specials’ and one other is an import from Singapore. Still not much to choose from really, although there’s a recent blue 650S listed at £130K.

[akadk]

£130k is silly money IMO

Gets you a nearly new Artura or a hyper car 720

[cgt2]

interstellar said:

I d probably go the other way and buy the 12c spider at Thorney for 95k and save 35k

My old car

[Zorbathegreek]

akadk said:

£130k is silly money IMO

Gets you a nearly new Artura or a hyper car 720

Hypercar 720? By today’s standards, nope. The 720S is mass produced old-tech (by supercar standards) - ten years old next year. Certainly the equivalent of Hypercar performance when it was launched in 2017. Spaceship looks, yes.

The difference between 650S and 720S performance in real-world driving is so marginal, there’s little to notice - certainly on UK roads. Both will lose your licence and can keep-up with just about anything else on four wheels (and two). For that price, I’d take a 650S spider over a a 720S coupe all day long - I’ve had 2 x 720S coupes - The 650S is better quality than the early 720S coupes that replaced it, that’s for sure. Sure, I’d take a 720S spider over a 650S spider, but the price difference is quite large. Need to really compare Spider vs Spider.

It certainly appears that the 650S spider will/has surpassed the 720S coupe on pricing.

[akadk]

Maybe your 720 was broken

It’s soooo much faster than the 650

[Zorbathegreek]

akadk said:

Maybe your 720 was broken

It s soooo much faster than the 650

The first one (2017) was certainly broken. The worst ownership experience I’ve ever had of any car. And that includes a 1990 Citroen XM.

Let’s agree to disagree on the soooo much faster. I’d agree that the 720S is faster, but soooo much faster, I think not. You’d need to be in serious licensing losing/go-to-jail territory to tell the difference.

Maybe your 650 was broken

[akadk]

Haha

Touché !

[ajm_ph]

akadk said:

Maybe your 720 was broken

It s soooo much faster than the 650

It's got a lot more performance on offer sure, but on the roads in the UK is it really a noticeable difference? I've never driven a 720, but the 650 is so fast you're in license losing territory in the blink of an eye as it is, I feel like you could double the power of my car and it just means I'd be backing off a fraction of a second earlier. Or are you thinking more about track days?

[akadk]

ajm_ph said:

akadk said:

Maybe your 720 was broken

It s soooo much faster than the 650

It's got a lot more performance on offer sure, but on the roads in the UK is it really a noticeable difference? I've never driven a 720, but the 650 is so fast you're in license losing territory in the blink of an eye as it is, I feel like you could double the power of my car and it just means I'd be backing off a fraction of a second earlier. Or are you thinking more about track days?

For me it’s noticeable

I could drive my 650 pretty hard on the road, by that I mean how long you can go WOT and wind it out

Do the same in the 720 and you quickly find yourself in a hedge as things so into fast forward and your brain can’t keep up

[akadk]

Just look at how it walks away from the 675LT once it gets breathing

https://youtu.be/6ZzwrO71BAc?si=hmJyoUlmaewZVr2I

[Zorbathegreek]

This ‘650S Prices’ thread was started two years ago. It’s interesting to read how prices have increased since it was first posted. Loads of comments about “overpriced” etc. but here we are two years on, that they are being advertised at 40-50% more.

Is it possible to keep it on-topic?

[akadk]

Zorbathegreek said:

This 650S Prices thread was started two years ago. It s interesting to read how prices have increased since it was first posted. Loads of comments about overpriced etc. but here we are two years on, that they are being advertised at 40-50% more.

Is it possible to keep it on-topic?

This is pistonheads !

[Frankychops]

Zorbathegreek said:

This 650S Prices thread was started two years ago. It s interesting to read how prices have increased since it was first posted. Loads of comments about overpriced etc. but here we are two years on, that they are being advertised at 40-50% more.

Is it possible to keep it on-topic?

I don’t think prices are up 50% at all, they’re about 12% up according to my spreadsheets, against inflation just a few %.